We Are Verbs Not Nouns

We Are Verbs Not Nouns

In Keep Going, I have a chapter called, “Forget the noun, do the verb,” and after seeing it on the poster, a reader asked if it was inspired by Stephen Fry. I had no idea what she was talking about, so I did a little googling. In 2010, Fry was interviewed by...

33 Rules for Being an Artist

33 rules to take you from clueless amateur to generational talent (or at least help you live life a little more creatively), by Jerry Saltz. Art is for anyone. It’s just not for everyone. I know this viscerally, as a would-be artist who burned out. I wrote about that...
Wonderfully Offbeat Assignments From John Baldessari

Wonderfully Offbeat Assignments From John Baldessari

In 1970, when conceptual artist John Baldessari was teaching studio art at the experimental CalArts campus near Valencia, CA, the 109 Art Assignments, John Baldessari he handed out to his class were art in themselves. Humorous, confounding, sometimes very specific but...